New American Standard Bible 1995

Exodus 12:3-8

3Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a 1lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a 2lamb for 3each household.

4Now if the household is too small for a 4lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the 5number of persons in them; according to 6what each man should eat, you are to 7divide the lamb.

5Your 8lamb shall be 9an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

6 10You shall keep it until the 11fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it 12 13at twilight.

7 14Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel 15of the houses in which they eat it.

8They shall eat the flesh 16that same night, 17roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with 18unleavened bread 19 20and bitter herbs.

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Notes

1. Exodus 12:3 Or kid ↩
2. Exodus 12:3 Or kid ↩
3. Exodus 12:3 Lit the ↩
4. Exodus 12:4 Or kid ↩
5. Exodus 12:4 Or amount ↩
6. Exodus 12:4 Lit each man’s eating ↩
7. Exodus 12:4 Lit compute for ↩
8. Exodus 12:5 Or kid ↩
9. Exodus 12:5 Lev 22:18-21; 23:12; Heb 9:14; 1 Pet 1:19 ↩
10. Exodus 12:6 Lit It shall be to you for a guarding ↩
11. Exodus 12:6 Ex 12:14, 17; Lev 23:5; Num 9:1-3, 11; 28:16 ↩
12. Exodus 12:6 Lit between the two evenings ↩
13. Exodus 12:6 Ex 16:12; Deut 16:4, 6 ↩
14. Exodus 12:7 Ex 12:22 ↩
15. Exodus 12:7 Lit upon ↩
16. Exodus 12:8 Ex 34:25; Num 9:12 ↩
17. Exodus 12:8 Deut 16:7 ↩
18. Exodus 12:8 Deut 16:3, 4; 1 Cor 5:8 ↩
19. Exodus 12:8 Lit in addition to ↩
20. Exodus 12:8 Num 9:11 ↩

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